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Leverage Your Existing Legacy Content
MadCap Flare makes it easy to import a number of popular content types such as Microsoft® Word and legacy content types such as FrameMaker®.
What Can Flare Import?
Author-it®
The Author-it® utility uses the published XML output from Author-it® and converts it to a Flare project, while maintaining all project and source files. The utility converts the table of contents of Author-it® books into Flare topics. Embedded topics become Flare snippets, while variables, styles, glossaries, context IDs and index keywords are maintained through the conversion process.
CHM
You can create a new project by importing an HTML Help (CHM) file.
DITA
You can create a new project or topics by importing DITA files.
Excel
You can create a new project or topics by importing Microsoft® Excel files.
FrameMaker®
You can create a new project or topics by importing Adobe® FrameMaker® files.
Global Project Linking
You can import content and project files contained in another Flare project, thus allowing you to maintain the information in one location but reuse it in any other project. When you use this feature to import files, you can include or exclude particular types of files (e.g., topics, snippets, stylesheets, glossaries, targets), specific individual files, or files that have certain condition tags applied.
HTML Files
You can create a new project or topics by importing HTML files.
HTML Help Projects
You can create a new project by importing an HTML Help project (HHP) file.
Individual Files
You can import a wide variety of individual files into an existing Flare project.
- Alias Files
- Browse Sequences
- Condition Tag Sets
- Contribution Files
- Destinations
- Dictionaries
- Glossaries
- Header Files
- Page Layouts
- Reviewed Files
- Search Filter Sets
- Skins
- Snippets
- Stylesheets
- Styles
- Tables of Contents
- Topics
- Variable Sets
MadCap Central
If another user uploads a Flare project to your MadCap Central license and you do not yet have that project on your computer, you can import it. You can do this from the MadCap Central window pane in Flare.
MadCap Doc-To-Help
You can create a new project by importing a Doc-To-Help project.
Microsoft® Word
You can create a new project or topics by importing Microsoft® Word files.
RoboHelp®
You can create a new project or topics by importing Adobe® RoboHelp® projects.
Source Control
You can create a new project by importing one located in source control.
